_Cats_.
- To dream of a cat, denotes ill luck, if you do not succeed in killing it or driving it from your sight. If the cat attacks you, you will have enemies who will go to any extreme to blacken your reputation and to cause you loss of property.But if you succeed in banishing it, you will overcome great obstacles and rise in fortune and fame. If you meet a thin, mean and dirty-looking cat, you will have bad news from the absent. Some friend lies at death’s door; but if you chase it out of sight, your friend will recover after a long and lingering sickness.
- To hear the scream or the mewing of a cat, some false friend is using all the words and work at his command to do you harm.
- To dream that a cat scratches you, an enemy will succeed in wrenching from you the profits of a deal that you have spent many days making. If a young woman dreams that she is holding a cat, or kitten, she will be influenced into some impropriety through the treachery of others.
- To dream of a clean white cat, denotes entanglements which, while seemingly harmless, will prove a source of sorrow and loss of wealth.
- When a merchant dreams of a cat, he should put his best energies to work, as his competitors are about to succeed in demolishing his standard of dealing, and he will be forced to other measures if he under sells others and still succeeds.
- To dream of seeing a cat and snake on friendly terms signifies the beginning of an angry struggle. It denotes that an enemy is being entertained by you with the intention of using him to find out some secret which you believe concerns yourself ;uneasy of his confidences given, you will endeavor to disclaim all knowledge of his actions, as you are fearful that things divulged concerning your private life, may become public.
_Caterpillar_.
To see a caterpillar in a dream, denotes that low
and hypocritical people are in your immediate future,
and you will do well to keep clear of deceitful appearances.
You may suffer a loss in love or business.
To dream of a caterpillar, foretells you will be placed in
embarrassing situations, and there will be small honor or gain
to be expected.
_Cattle_.
To dream of seeing good-looking and fat cattle contentedly
grazing in green pastures, denotes prosperity and happiness
through a congenial and pleasant companion.
To see cattle lean and shaggy, and poorly fed, you will be likely to toil
all your life because of misspent energy and dislike of details of work.
Correct your habits after this dream.
To see cattle stampeding, means that you will have to exert all the powers
of command you have to keep your career in a profitable channel.
To see a herd of cows at milking time, you will be the
successful owner of wealth that many have worked to obtain.
To a young woman this means that her affections will not suffer
from the one of her choice.
To dream of milking cows with udders well filled, great good fortune
is in store for you. If the calf has stolen the milk, it signifies that
you are about to lose your lover by slowness to show your reciprocity,
or your property from neglect of business.
To see young calves in your dream, you will become a great
favorite in society and win the heart of a loyal person.
For business, this dream indicates profit from sales.
For a lover, the entering into bonds that will be respected.
If the calves are poor, look for about the same, except that
the object sought will be much harder to obtain.
Long-horned and dark, vicious cattle, denote enemies.
_Chickens_.
To dream of seeing a brood of chickens, denotes worry from many cares,
some of which of which will prove to your profit.
Young or half grown chickens, signify fortunate enterprises,
but to make them so you will have to exert your physical strength.
To see chickens going to roost, enemies are planning to work you evil.
To eat them, denotes that selfishness will detract from your otherwise
good name. Business and love will remain in precarious states.
_Lion_.
To dream of a lion, signifies that a great force is driving you.
If you subdue the lion, you will be victorious in any engagement.
If it overpowers you, then you will be open to the successful
attacks of enemies.
To see caged lions, denotes that your success depends upon your ability
to cope with opposition.
To see a man controlling a lion in its cage, or out denotes
success in business and great mental power. You will be favorably
regarded by women.
To see young lions, denotes new enterprises, which will bring
success if properly attended.
For a young woman to dream of young lions, denotes new and fascinating lovers.
For a woman to dream that she sees Daniel in the lions’ den, signifies that by
her intellectual qualifications and personal magnetism she will win fortune
and lovers to her highest desire.
To hear the roar of a lion, signifies unexpected advancement
and preferment with women.
To see a lion’s head over you, showing his teeth by snarls,
you are threatened with defeat in your upward rise to power.
To see a lion’s skin, denotes a rise to fortune and happiness.
To ride one, denotes courage and persistency in surmounting difficulties.
To dream you are defending your children from a lion with a
pen-knife, foretells enemies will threaten to overpower you,
and will well nigh succeed if you allow any artfulness to persuade
you for a moment from duty and business obligations.
Spiders
To dream of a spider, denotes that you will be careful and energetic
in your labors, and fortune will be amassed to pleasing proportions.
To see one building its web, foretells that you will be happy
and secure in your own home.
To kill one, signifies quarrels with your wife or sweetheart.
If one bites you, you will be the victim of unfaithfulness and will suffer
from enemies in your business.
If you dream that you see many spiders hanging in their webs around you,
foretells most favorable conditions, fortune, good health and friends.
To dream of a large spider confronting you, signifies that your elevation
to fortune will be swift, unless you are in dangerous contact.
To dream that you see a very large spider and a small one coming
towards you, denotes that you will be prosperous, and that you
will feel for a time that you are immensely successful; but if
the large one bites you, enemies will steal away your good fortune.
If the little one bites you, you will be harassed with little spites
and jealousies. To imagine that you are running from a large spider,
denotes you will lose fortune in slighting opportunities.
If you kill the spider you will eventually come into fair estate.
If it afterwards returns to life and pursues you, you will be
oppressed by sickness and wavering fortunes.
For a young woman to dream she sees gold spiders crawling around her,
foretells that her fortune and prospect for happiness will improve,
and new friends will surround her.
Spider-webs: To see spider-webs, denotes pleasant associations and fortunate ventures.
Snail/s
- Snails crawling in your dream, signifies that unhealthful conditions surround you.
- To step on them, denotes that you will come in contact with disagreeable people.
Snakes
- Are you in conflict?
- Is something in your life taking a dramatic shift?
- Are you experiencing a rebirth or transformation?
- Are you paying attention to your life purpose?
- Do you follow your instinct or your ego’s will to power?
Being bitten by a snake in your dream
Dreams of a snake bite have significant spiritual connotations! The dream is a warning to protect yourself from dangers in life. It is all about control and power, and deceit. The bite itself represents a new beginning like the death card in the tarot pack – and you should prepare yourself for change.
- Snake biting in dreams is connected to hidden snakes in real life, people that we know and love that will do us harm. It is a warning dream.
- Dreaming of a snake biting your lover (husband or wife) is negative and means the relationship may experience difficulties.
- For a woman to dream that a dead snake is biting her, foretells she will suffer from malice of a pretended friend.
- If they bite you, and you have a business – be warned – enemies are aiming to injure your business.
- To see them bite others foretells that some friend will be injured and criticized by you.
Psychiatrist Interpretations
Sigmund Freud, aka Freud, is the founder of Psychoanalysis, and he expresses that the snake in your dreams represents your unconscious sexual desires. According to Freud, snake dreams are connected to the male reproductive organ. He believed people dream of snakes so they are connected to feeling sexual power and that a male holds a hidden fear of transformation.
Freud believed that the snake was the most important symbol for the male as the snake is associated with a male powerful bond between himself and a female, and that it is associated with feelings of “sexual power” in a dream – a symbol of possible fertility.
A Freudian interpretation of the snake dream emphasizes your relation to sexuality and male figures in your life. For Freud, the snake is the symbol of the penis.
So if you are a woman experiencing a snake dream, then it is associated with sexuality representing your relationship with men, especially romantic or sexual ones, or your male energy. Freud, in his book, The Interpretation of Dreams, written in 1899, quoted about snakes featuring in dreams:
“Most of those animals which are utilized as genital symbols in mythology and folklore play this part also in dreams: the fish, the snail, the cat, the mouse (on account of the hairiness of the genitals), but above all the snake, which is the most important symbol of the male member.”
From a Jungian perspective, snake dreams offer people the dangerous possibility of connecting with the wisdom of the collective unconscious and drawing strength from its archetypal energies.
Carl Jung believes that the serpent is associated with wisdom and symbolizes healing
“ What Nature wants us to do is to move with a snakelike motion. … The snake is the symbol of the great wisdom of Nature, for the too direct way is not the best way; the crooked way, the detour, is the shorter way. Snake-dreams usually occur; therefore when the conscious mind deviates from its instinctual basis. Snake dreams always indicate a discrepancy between the attitude of the conscious mind and instinct, the snake being a personification of the threatening aspect of that conflict.”
Mythologically speaking, the snake represents the primal life energy that rises out of the primordial waters of being – that earth-bound, spiritual energy that is incarnate in us all. In a human being that energy has the potential to become the highest spiritual principle. We see this aspect of serpent symbolism in the images of Kundalini yoga.
Snakes in dreams
- To dream of snakes, is a foreboding of evil in its various forms and stages.
- To see them wriggling and falling over others, foretells struggles with fortune and remorse.
- To kill them, you will feel that you have used every opportunity of advancing your own interests, or respecting that of others. You will enjoy victory over enemies.
- To walk over them, you will live in constant fear of sickness, and selfish persons will seek to usurp your place in your companion’s life.
- To dream that a common spotted snake approaches you from green herbs, and you quickly step aside as it passes you, and after you had forgotten the incident to again see it approaching and growing in dimensions as it nears you, finally taking on the form of an enormous serpent; if you then, after frantic efforts, succeed in escaping its attack,
and altogether lose sight of it, it foretells that you will soon imagine you are being disobeyed and slighted, and things will go on from bad to worse. Sickness, uneasiness and unkindness will increase to frightful proportions in your mind; but they will adjust themselves to a normal basis, and by putting aside of imaginary trouble, and masterfully shouldering duties, you will be contented and repaid - To dream that a snake coils itself around you and darts its tongue out at you, is a sign that you will be placed in a position where you will be powerless in the hands of enemies, and you will be attacked with sickness.
- To handle them, you will use strategy to aid in overthrowing opposition.
- To see hairs turn into snakes, foretells that seeming insignificant incidents will make distressing cares for you.
- If snakes turn into unnatural shapes, you will have troubles which will be dispelled if treated with indifference, calmness and will power.
- To see or step on snakes while wading or bathing, denotes that there will be trouble where unalloyed pleasure was anticipated.
- To see little snakes denotes you will entertain persons with friendly hospitality who will secretly defame you and work
to overthrow your growing prospects. - To see children playing with them, is a sign that you will be nonplussed to distinguish your friends from your enemies.
- For a woman to think a child places one on the back of her head, and she hears the snake’s hisses, foretells that she will be persuaded to yield up some possession seemingly for her good, but she will find out later that she has been inveigled into an intrigue in which enemies will tantalize her.
- To see snakes raising up their heads in a path just behind your friend, denotes that you will discover a conspiracy which has been formed to injure your friend and also yourself.
- To think your friend has them under control, denotes that some powerful agency will be employed in your favor to ward off evil influences.
- For a woman to hypnotize a snake, denotes your rights will be assailed, but you will be protected by law and influential friends.
_Sparrow_.
To dream of sparrows, denotes that you will be surrounded with love
and comfort, and this will cause you to listen with kindly interest
to tales of woe, and your benevolence will gain you popularity.
To see them distressed or wounded, foretells sadness.
_Stallion_.
To dream of a stallion, foretells prosperous conditions are approaching you,
in which you will hold a position which will confer honor upon you.
To dream you ride a fine stallion, denotes you will rise to position
and affluence in a phenomenal way; however, your success will warp
your morality and sense of justice. To see one with the rabies,
foretells that wealthy surroundings will cause you to assume arrogance,
which will be distasteful to your friends, and your pleasures
will be deceitful.
_Turkey_.
To dream of seeing turkeys, signifies abundant gain in business,
and favorable crops to the farmer.
To see them dressed for the market, denotes improvement in your affairs.
To see them sick, or dead, foretells that stringent circumstances
will cause your pride to suffer.
To dream you eat turkey, foretells some joyful occasion approaching.
To see them flying, denotes a rapid transit from obscurity to prominence.
To shoot them as game, is a sign that you will unscrupulously amass wealth.